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Hi All, Just wondering what exactly happens to a beer or a wine when it ages. It undoubtly tastes much better after a maturing period, but I am just wondering what is actually happening to cause this to happen. I was trying to work out what was going on in the bottles when it ages but I...

hello folks, I've currently got a strawberry wine going, and I'm at the clearing stage. However nothing is happening, it has been a week now and not even a hint of anything happening. I used Vinclear finings and it says that it will take about a week to clear. Does anyone have any...

Something that has been bugging me since I started home brewing. What is the difference between hard cider and wine. This may seem a silly question at first glance but the process to make either seems more or less the same for cider and apple wine, and also cider also seems to be made from...

Hello Everyone, I was wondering about carbonation in brewing. My understanding is that to obtain a carbonated drink you need to add sugar when it is time to put the brew in a bottle and it undergoes a secondary fermentation that creates the carbon dioxide to create the fizz in the drink. I...

Hello Everybody, Does anyone else use Sodium Metabisuplhate to sanitize their equipment? I bought a container of it with my first brew and I have been using it since then. The instructions say add 1 teaspoon to 1 pint water for a solution then wash everything with it. However the...

Hi All, I'm going to make a simple cider, based on a recipie that I got from this forum using Pure apple juice from Tesco, adding champgne yeast, fermenting and bottling. That got me wondering could I use any kind of juice, for example Cranberry juice or pineapple juice and repeat the recipie...

Hi All, new here, I have just made my third home brew using a kit. I thought this time I would use a Brewmaker bavarian Pilsner. The instructions were just the same as the other two, so I proceded as follows. Boiled water and added the contents of the can into the fermentation bucket and...